I can't see Mayweather showboating, that's not really his style. I can however see him being extremely clinical, extremely masterful, and extremely vicious

He does showboat a bit....talks to them a bit, makes mocking gestures, shakes his head etc.

Thing is if he's clinical and vicious in this one....then he'll win inside 5 rounds tops and he'll hand out such a one sided drubbing it'll be embarrassing. I wonder if he'll try and drag it out to make it seem like it was worth people stumping up for.

Mayweather and White have both said that it is nowhere close to being done.

Floyd sent McGregor a message on social media saying that he needs to take care of his "UFC stuff" and then talk to him. Essentially, telling him to talk to his boss. No way in hell that White is letting him fight before the contract is up. If he tries to go around them, it will get tied up in court until Floyd is ACTUALLY retired. Would be a waste of a career to take on a billion dollar company.

Conor hates the fact that he is an employee of the UFC and it kills him when Floyd points this out. I think this could be the beginning of the end for Conor. I don't think he will be able to spend another two years or so in the UFC fighting for a few million at a time. In the back of his head, he will be thinking about how they stopped him from making $100 million in a night.

Mayweather and White have both said that it is nowhere close to being done.

Floyd sent McGregor a message on social media saying that he needs to take care of his "UFC stuff" and then talk to him. Essentially, telling him to talk to his boss. No way in hell that White is letting him fight before the contract is up. If he tries to go around them, it will get tied up in court until Floyd is ACTUALLY retired. Would be a waste of a career to take on a billion dollar company.

Conor hates the fact that he is an employee of the UFC and it kills him when Floyd points this out. I think this could be the beginning of the end for Conor. I don't think he will be able to spend another two years or so in the UFC fighting for a few million at a time. In the back of his head, he will be thinking about how they stopped him from making $100 million in a night.

Surely he could chuck the UFC a reaction of the money he will make from this fight in exchange for them allowing him to breach contract in a one time deal.

Surely he could chuck the UFC a reaction of the money he will make from this fight in exchange for them allowing him to breach contract in a one time deal.

The model that the UFC has created allows them to take the majority of the ppv dollars with UFC events. With this fight, Floyd would want at least half (if not more) of the ppv dollars. An even split of the rest would leave Conor and the UFC with less than a third of the profits. I would imagine that what the UFC take from a regular UFC ppv event is more than, or in the range of, what they would get if they split a ppv three ways with Floyd and Conor.

It makes very little business sense for the UFC to allow this to happen. Even if a three-way split allowed them gain slightly more than what they normally would from a regular ppv, they would be endangering their business model. The message would be sent that fighters can strike out into business for themselves and it would take attention away from their sport.

Conor's attempt to draw parallels between fighters being allowed to compete in grappling tournaments is weak. Those tournaments do not produce hundreds of millions of dollars, or promote a sport that competes with the UFC for ppv dollars. Also, it is not a given that they can compete in those tournaments. Bellator just recently prevented Sonnen from competing in one.

As I said, Conor may ruin his career trying to chase this down. He really does believe that he is bigger than the UFC at this point and believes he should be paid as such. Even though this fight was never going to be a reality, he will view it as the UFC preventing him from a major payday. I can't see him settling for peanuts in four more UFC fights.

The model that the UFC has created allows them to take the majority of the ppv dollars with UFC events. With this fight, Floyd would want at least half (if not more) of the ppv dollars. An even split of the rest would leave Conor and the UFC with less than a third of the profits. I would imagine that what the UFC take from a regular UFC ppv event is more than, or in the range of, what they would get if they split a ppv three ways with Floyd and Conor.

It makes very little business sense for the UFC to allow this to happen. Even if a three-way split allowed them gain slightly more than what they normally would from a regular ppv, they would be endangering their business model. The message would be sent that fighters can strike out into business for themselves and it would take attention away from their sport.

Conor's attempt to draw parallels between fighters being allowed to compete in grappling tournaments is weak. Those tournaments do not produce hundreds of millions of dollars, or promote a sport that competes with the UFC for ppv dollars. Also, it is not a given that they can compete in those tournaments. Bellator just recently prevented Sonnen from competing in one.

As I said, Conor may ruin his career trying to chase this down. He really does believe that he is bigger than the UFC at this point and believes he should be paid as such. Even though this fight was never going to be a reality, he will view it as the UFC preventing him from a major payday. I can't see him settling for peanuts in four more UFC fights.

I just think Conor often gets his way with the UFC and if he were to refuse to fight for them again should they block this fight then they'll be loosing even more money then what they would just allowing him a one off v Mayweather.

It's probably the same as most employment contracts. My contract at work is to do law but I'd still have to get permission to go and do a few shifts down my local pub or whatever.

Most employment contracts hire your time say 40 hours per week across 5 days of the week. But if you worked in a pub on the Saturday... all you need to do is tell the tax man of the additional income. You don't need to tell your main employer.

I might be wrong but i assume mcgregor gets paid only when he fights. If he is salaried then he needs to read clauses in his contract.

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